Police State Tactics From the Obama Campaign? Of Course!

Missouri Governor Matt Blunt is right in attacking Obama’s law-enforcement supported “truth squad” in his state:

St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, and Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.

What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment.

This abuse of the law for intimidation insults the most sacred principles and ideals of Jefferson. I can think of nothing more offensive to Jefferson’s thinking than using the power of the state to deprive Americans of their civil rights. The only conceivable purpose of Messrs. McCulloch, Obama and the others is to frighten people away from expressing themselves, to chill free and open debate, to suppress support and donations to conservative organizations targeted by this anti-civil rights, to strangle criticism of Mr. Obama, to suppress ads about his support of higher taxes, and to choke out criticism on television, radio, the Internet, blogs, e-mail and daily conversation about the election.

And if you think this is bad, just wait until he gets in office…

Americans simply don’t realise how close we are to a “one-party” state if the party in power chooses to employ all of the means at its disposal to criminalise its opponents. The Democrats missed their chance to “finish the job” in the 1970’s. But I doubt they’ll let another opportunity slip through their fingers, given the chance.

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One Reply to “Police State Tactics From the Obama Campaign? Of Course!”

This freaks me out just a bit. And it’s true – with Obama as President, and a Democrat-controlled House and Senate, freedom of speech would begin to be taken away, bit by bit, as soon as they were given the chance.